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We seem to agree together :). It may be or may be not easy to rebuild everything with the same VS version, especially open source packages. Many maintainers do
by vetinari 12y ago
We seem to agree together :).
It may be or may be not easy to rebuild everything with the same VS version, especially open source packages. Many maintainers do not care about VS at all (e.g. xz/liblzma - use mingw, VS is not C99 anyway... but mingw links agains msvcrt.dll, which is a no-no) or have some crazy build system, that is supposed to work cross-platform, but really works only on Linux and maybe OSX (I'm looking at you, py2cairo). Some of them do care and building is a piece of cake (curl). Or they are somewhere in the middle, where will make their own build system, that defies all your expectations and does it's own things ignoring your vcvars (Boost).
When we get out of the C/C++ realm, it gets easier everywhere, whether C# or Python.